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10 Cards in this Set
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Love |
Love involves a two way process and ability to respond. |
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Prayer |
God cannot answer prayers if he does not exist in our sphere. If God knows the future already, a prayer cannot change that. |
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John 15:7 |
Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you" |
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Christian response to Boethius' deffinition |
He describes a deist God, not the god of classical theism. |
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Anthony Kenny Swinburne |
God experiencing all time makes no sense. a priori approach) time, by definition is linear. a posteriori approach) the future has not happened. |
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Suffering |
If God can see all suffering across time, why hasn't he stopped it? |
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Impersonal |
not influenced by feelings, or involved. |
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Swinburne |
A timeless God is impersonal, thus - cannot love people. This contradicts everything Christians are taught. Points to the story of Hezekiah who prays to God to extent his life.. |
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Impassible |
A timeless God does not experience pain or pleasure, so cannot be omni benevolent. |
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Charles Hartshorne |
Criticises Aquinas' notion that God is impassible. He is no impassible and can feel pain. Through feeling pain, he can feel love. |
